Dive Summary:
- Fredericksburg City Council made a unanimous decision for a private company to build and operate a waste-to-energy plant on city-owned property.
- Energy Extraction Partners LLC will lease 11 acres of the landfill site for the next 20 years, and create a $73 million facility that will generate 15 megawatts of power every day.
- The plant will employ a system- pyrolysis, that accelerates the decomposition of waste, capturing the released gas to use for electricity.
From the article:
EEP would pay the R–Board, the Stafford–Fredericksburg authority that operates the landfill, $1 million in advance, and $100,000 per year for 20 years. EEP would pay the R–Board an additional $1 million if federal energy tax credits are received for the project.
...construction could begin this year, and the plant could be operational on a small scale by 2014.
